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Ooops! at John Dos Passos

Hi. I left a rather snotty edit summary at JDP, which was supposed to be directed at an earlier ISP-number editor, not at you. Sorry! — HarringtonSmith (talk) 00:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no worries there! Thanks for the clarification. :) Avicennasis @ 01:02, 26 Adar I 5771 / 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Miracle in the Gorbals

It would be very helpful if you could say where additional citations are needed for this article. Thanks. Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 20:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It seems good, I've removed the {{refimprove}} tag. Before that, it was tagged as {{unreferenced}}, which obviously isn't the case since there are references. AutoWikiBrowser suggested the tag change, since it did have refs - it's just not good at deciding how many references are enough. :) Avicennasis @ 20:57, 26 Adar I 5771 / 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 21:09, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

lease be the mentor for the students working on United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction and National Broadband Plan (United States)

Hi again, Avic! I'm currently trying to assign mentors to all the remaining groups in Professor Obar's class. Would you be the mentor for the group of students working on United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction and the group working on National Broadband Plan (United States)? If you can do it, thanks! If not, please let me know.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Online Ambassador Program

Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:29, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comp Video Games

Re. Wikipedia:Botreq#moving articles and User:Avicennasis/sandbox6

I was having a look at that, at the same time.

I've added a list of the nine with the specific concern you'd also noted - ie articles under "computer" and "video".

Beware two entries on your list; Blaby Computer Games, Star Wars computer and video games.

I'll leave you to it; poke me if needed. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  16:50, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, Thanks for the heads up! Not sure how those two got in there, but precisely why I posted it at WP:BOTREQ before doing anything more - extra eyes are always handy. I think those nine will have to be disambig'd, or possibly merged if the "(video game)" version is already about the computer game. Avicennasis @ 16:56, 27 Adar I 5771 / 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I agree, those need manual sorting-out. But that doesn't have to stop the rest. There is one more small 'gotcha' which I've posted on the REQ page. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  17:53, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mhm, looks OK to me. (As in, I checked some of the merge, and yeah; looks OK)  Chzz  ►  05:36, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Universe (video game)

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I don't think so, CorenSearchBot. You must be a little confused. :) It's ok, I love you anyway. Avicennasis @ 00:54, 29 Adar I 5771 / 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Transmission line

Re your removal of stub tags, stub is not a stub, but it used to be. SpinningSpark 00:28, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. I have no idea why that happened. Thanks for fixing it and bringing it to my attention! :) I'll file a bug report with WP:AWB devs. Avicennasis @ 00:37, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Bug filed, if your interested. :) Avicennasis @ 00:48, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)

chris brooks

The above article is not worthy of space on wikipedia. This presenter has a little tin pot job on a local radio station and i dont think this will benefit anybody who should read it, only to massage the already over inflated ego of a cheesy disc jockey who went out with the arc

Try reading tags which have already been added which requests the removal of this pointless article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.163.252 (talk) 11:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you mean Chris Brooks (radio presenter)? I do see it has been tagged for deletion. Some admin will come along, and if they agree with the deletion reason, the article will be removed. Avicennasis @ 16:01, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)

CfD Manual bot list

Cheers for that list. I've never mastered AWB myself - if you could remove the categories from the 92 living that would be the best start to getting them all in line. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No prob. :) I'll get to it shortly. Avicennasis @ 20:50, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 Done Avicennasis @ 22:04, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Concur with removing living persons from bias categories

Avicennasis: I concur with the recent CFD on bias categories. I notice you removed many individuals from several of those categories. Another category that may be appropriate is Category:Antisemitism in the United States which has quite a few living persons in it, who are implicitly accused of being biased, simply by being mentioned in the Category, hence a BLP issue. If you have time, you may want to scrub that category also. --Noleander (talk) 00:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Done :) Feel free to let me know if I can be of more assistance. Avicennasis @ 01:14, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
That was fast :-) David Duke is still in that category: was that a deliberate choice? --Noleander (talk) 01:38, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Nope. A fluke. I loaded all articles in Category:Antisemitism in the United States, then scanned them to see which articles contained the text [[Category:Living people]]. Not sure how that one slipped through - I've removed it now as well. :) Avicennasis @ 01:41, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Actually, upon looking a little deeper, it looks like I did get this removed. Another editor undid the change, though. Avicennasis @ 01:47, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi Avicennasis, please use a standardised timestamp so that bots such as archive bots can interpret it correctly. I think your use of the Hebrew calendar is a nifty trick, but your sig must contain the timestamp in this format *somewhere*: "19:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)". Thanks! Graham87 03:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've posted tons of places that use archive bots - I've never broken one yet. :) If you can point me somewhere that is has, I'll gladly change it. Avicennasis @ 03:05, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
It would only break an archive bot if you were the only person to post in a particular section. Maybe your sig doesn't break the archive bots ... you'd best ask their maintainers. But I'm pretty paranoid about this sort of thing ... hear are some examples where I've had to fix such breakage on relatively well-used talk pages. Graham87 03:10, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It would also break the archive bots if there were no signatures with standard timestamps in the section (i.e. your sig + unsigned comments and/or other sigs with non-standard timestamps), but that's not very likely. Graham87 03:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the diffs you posted were both issues with User:MiszaBot II. I found an edit I made to Wikipedia talk:Edit filter where I was the last editor to post in a section, and User:MiszaBot II still archived it fine diff.
It also seems that User:KingpinBot doesn't mind it either - same result here, archived with no problem. So, I assume I'm good. :) Thanks for the concern, though. Avicennasis @ 03:26, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
But both those diffs contain sigs with standard timestamps; other contributors have signed within those sections. Ah well, it's not a high-priority issue, really. Graham87 05:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

HESPTYLTD

Hi, I was just wondering why this name did not warrant a block at this time considering there is no evidence of name change and their SPA contributions to Home Entertainment Suppliers which the name appears to represent and promote? Thanks Fæ (talk) 13:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In general, abandoned accounts aren't usually blocked. This account hasn't edited since Feb 24, and it seems unlikely they will be back. (A good deal of accounts reported at WP:UAA are abandoned, and no further action is taken.) If they do return, however, and continue the same behavior, the account will be blocked at that point. :) Hope that helps. Avicennasis @ 13:05, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation, I agree it's low risk. As users I have welcomed stay on my watchlist for around the 2 month mark before getting automatically unwatched, I'll probably notice if they start up again over the next few weeks anyway. Cheers Fæ (talk) 13:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 7 March 2011

Trouted

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: going on vacation. Didn't you know that you're not allowed to do that without offering to purchase a shot glass for me to add to my collection? Shame on you! ;) Strikerforce (talk) 02:29, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Great. Now my face smells like fish. ;P —Terrence and Phillip 03:23, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Online Mentor

Just wanted to say hello, as you're my group's online mentor for the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. Looking forward to working with you! I'm a junior at Michigan State majoring in Computer Science. My group members should leave a comment here soon, also. Tuoheyjo (talk) 19:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker)I believe Avicennasis is away on vacation, at the moment. If your group needs assistance in the interim, I would be happy to offer my help. You may either leave a message here so Avicennasis will have them all in one place when he returns or on my talk page. Strikerforce (talk) 22:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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The Signpost: 14 March 2011

GOCE / Mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.

Participation
GOCE March 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to Good article status so far this month.

Progress report

We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Utahraptor resigns

The UtahraptorTalk to me has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues.

Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk)


Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:41, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Online Mentor II

Just wanted to say hello, as you're my group's online mentor for the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. I'm a senior at Michigan State majoring Media Communication Technologies. Look forward to working with you!. Gruszyn1 (talk) 19:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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